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The never-before-told storyline of the journey behind The Bronze Horseman, now in sound for the very first time. From the author of the celebrated, internationally best-selling The Bronze Horseman saga comes a view in to the private life of its much loved creator and the real storyline behind the epic books. Paullina Simons offers us a work of nonfiction as captivating and heartwrenching as the lives of Tatiana and Alexander. Only a few chapters into writing her first storyline set in Russia, her mother country, Paullina Simons journeyed to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) with her cherished Papa. What started out as a study trip converted into six days and nights that forever modified her life, the span of her family, and the book that became The Bronze Horseman. After a quarter-century from her native land, Paullina and her dad found a world stuck in yesteryear, with crumbling stucco buildings, entire families residing in seven-square-meter communal rentals, and barren domains bombed so terribly that nothing would expand there even 50 years later. Yet there were the spectacular white evenings, the warm hospitality of family friends, and, of course, the pelmeni and caviar. At times poignant, sometimes inspiring and funny, this is both a fascinating glimpse in to the motivation behind the epic saga and a touching story of an family's background, a dad and a princess, and the fate of a region.
